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In an interview with The Paris Review twenty years ago, Don DeLillo mentioned that “lists are a form of cultural hysteria.” From the vantage point of today, you wonder how much anyone—even someone as routinely prescient as DeLillo—could possibly have identified list-based hysteria in 1993. DeLillo’s statement also hints at something crucial about the list as a form: the tension between its gesturing toward order and its acknowledgement of order’s impossibility. The list—or, more specifically, the listicle—extends a promise of the definitive while necessarily revealing that no such promise could ever be fulfilled. It arises out of a desire to impose order on a life, a culture, a society, a difficult matter, a vast and teeming panorama of cat adorability and nineties nostalgia. Umberto Eco put it dramatically: “The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order.”

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Brilliant trailer by Aardman for BBC 2s Radio Event to be be broadcast on Monday 26th August. The play based on Pink Floyd’s seminal album, Dark Side Of The Moon, which had its 40th anniversary this year, has been written by legendary playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, and features a cast that includes Bill Nighy, Rufus Sewell and Adrian Scarborough, with Olivier Award-winning Iwan Rheon and stage actress Amaka Okafor in lead roles. How much genius can you get into one project? Not to be missed.

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